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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2013
Dimitre Latev, San Jose, CA (US);
Arman Hajati, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Darren Todd Imai, Los Gatos, CA (US);
UT Tran, San Jose, CA (US);
Dimitre Latev, San Jose, CA (US);
Arman Hajati, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Darren Todd Imai, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Ut Tran, San Jose, CA (US);
FUJIFILM DIMATIX, INC., Lebanon, NH (US);
Abstract
Techniques and structures for providing flexibility of a micromachined transducer array. In an embodiment, a transducer array includes a plurality of transducer elements each comprising a piezoelectric element and one or more electrodes disposed in or on a support layer. The support layer is bonded to a flexible layer including a polymer material, wherein flexibility of the transducer array results in part from a total thickness of a flexible layer. In another embodiment, flexibility of the transducer array results in part from one or more flexural structures formed therein.